Anchor Church

This place is beautiful in it's own right. Peaceful by the river with views across the fields. Walk from the main road where there is a wooden sign, takes about 15 mins but it's for those without walking issues. The river is good for an outdoor swim too.

Great travel, fun hike to its location (wear trousers not shorts)

A beautiful place to visit steeped in history and very atmospheric. As nightfall's it takes on a very creepy feel. We captured voices, dragging and amazing orbs on our video over on our YouTube channel.

Fascinating place and history and great wild swimming spot in the backwater pool right in front of the dwelling.

The caves we used since the 1600’s originally by a monk serving penance for a crime (according to Wikipedia).

It was sadly full of rubbish and graphiti but still impressive non the less.

Parking close to anchor church is very limited the closest we found was in quite a muddy and rocky lay-by in ingleby it is directly opposite the footpath sign posting to anchor church.

The route is quite a overgrown and tricky route to navigate, lots of nettles.

Easy to get to from the road, a little bit difficult to park but basically just parking on the side of a country road, there's a trail from other hikers that takes you directly to it. A nice walk all in all, very nettley and overgrown at the moment though so do wear long sleeves and trousers :)

It's a great place but it's full of graffiti it's been poorly looked after and the path is dangerous in winter months due to slippery conditions.

But it's a fairly scenic place and the trek was worth it. Considering the history

(saint hardulph hermit saint once king of Northumbria allegedly lived in one of the caves)

Well worth a visit, but not at all what my family or I expected. Caves are quite remarkable if smaller than expected. There is a lot of graffiti and names etc cut into the rocks as well as fire debris in various places. Take wellies if weather is or has been recently wet. Walk to and from has some lovely rock faces and the sandstone is very weathered and fascinating. The area around seems to be under some sort of development as large earth mounds and tracks visible.

Love being able to walk down here with the dog. It's a very common route for us living nearby. Very wet and boggy in the winter, very overgrown in the summer, sadly, it's not easily accessible for those with mobility issues.
Just a really nice quirk on a very pleasant walk that takes in foremark hall.
A shame it has been slightly ruined by those who can't leave anything the way they found it.